Chapter 16 A Territory's Reaction

As Xu Jingming silently left the abyss, in the vast expanse containing the golden lake, a ruler known as 'Lord Fokanro' sensed Natho's death. Lord Fokanro was one of the three hundred-odd abyss lords of this layer of the abyss.

Fokanro had been frolicking with his many beautiful wives and concubines when he suddenly looked towards the golden lake.

"Natho is dead."

Fokanro clearly confirmed it. He only had a few hundred subordinates who could reach the peak of the Eternal Realm. When he sent his subordinates to invade territories, he relied on these generals to lead. He naturally paid attention to the death of each general.

In an instant, Fokanro observed the past timeline, seeing the various images that had occurred—

Xu Jingming, wielding a mind weapon spear, pierced through the golden lake’s body.

Inside the cave abode of the Original Gold Mountain Range, the illusory Xu Jingming, holding a spear, pierced Natho's true form.

Xu Jingming and the Dean, Tower Master, and Island Lord were carefully advancing within the Original Gold Mountain Range…

Fokanro observed all the scenes and naturally understood a great deal about Xu Jingming's information.

"What a waste, unable to withstand even a single blow," Fokanro thought to himself. "This Wu Ming is extremely strong. He's likely unmatched below the half-step third realm, very suitable to be recruited."

He never thought about avenging Natho.

In the abyss, the law of the jungle was taken for granted! From birth, abyss lifeforms had been constantly fighting each other. The abyss lords were numb to these scenes. If Fokanro stood up for his subordinates, it would make the surrounding abyss lords find it unbelievable and laugh at him.

In Fokanro's mind, there was no thought of revenge. Those subordinates were merely his tools. On the contrary, he now very much wanted to obtain Xu Jingming as a tool.

"If I can recruit Wu Ming, he's worth dozens of Nathos," Fokanro's single eye began to pry into the future timeline, seeing if there was any hope of recruiting Xu Jingming.

"Hmm?"

Fokanro frowned slightly, disbelief in his single eye. "I can't find all of his avatars? I can't truly control him? Even if he becomes an enemy, he will become my great tribulation in the future?"

"The future has infinite possibilities. What I observe is just the tip of the iceberg. Even just the tip of the iceberg, he's so terrifying?" Fokanro was somewhat alarmed. "I've spied on the futures of many experts, but this Wu Ming is a little too scary."

A half-step third realm existence could observe the past very accurately, but observing the future was very vague.

The information revealed by the vague future already made Fokanro feel frightened.

"His rise is unstoppable," Fokanro thought to himself. "Keep your distance from him."

"The Southern Arbor 3609 Territory is truly a special territory," Fokanro suddenly said with interest. "World Tree Realm Lord is terrifyingly strong, much stronger than me. And Dragon Imperator Island Lord is the personal disciple of a third realm existence; he's tyrannical and domineering. The surrounding territories can only tolerate him. Now, another Wu Ming with a terrifying future branch has emerged? I wonder what will happen with the three of them gathered in the same territory."

"Dragon Imperator Island Lord is also a waste. I heard that he and the third realm existence both grew up from low-dimensional lifeforms, and their relationship was extremely deep. But in the end, he fell out with the friends and relatives of the third realm existence. He was exiled to the Southern Arbor 3609 Territory by the third realm existence."

Fokanro was, after all, an abyss lord.

Abyss lords were very well-informed. The layer of the abyss he was in had infiltrated tens of thousands of territories.

He was also exchanging information with the lords in the adjacent layers of the abyss, so he naturally knew the details of Dragon Imperator Island Lord.

In their eyes, Dragon Imperator Island Lord was a waste!

Having such a relationship with a third realm existence, he wouldn't have ended up in this state if he had been slightly more sensible.

Even so, many abyss lords avoided this Dragon Imperator Island Lord, because his background was too terrifying. A third realm existence could point from across endless territories, and their little lives would be gone. Who would dare to be enemies with Dragon Imperator Island Lord?

"The three of them are in the same territory. This territory will definitely be very exciting in the future." Fokanro now had a mindset of watching the fun, and he was quite looking forward to the future changes in the Southern Arbor 3609 Territory.

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Natho had been entrenched in the Southern Arbor 3609 Territory for a long time, committing countless evil deeds, and he also had many enemies.

Many high-dimensional lifeforms gnashed their teeth and wanted to kill him, but they didn't have the ability to deal with him. At the moment when Natho was completely killed—

"Hmm?"

Many high-dimensional lifeforms sensed at the same time that their karma with Natho had dissipated, and there was no more target to sense.

"Natho is dead?" These high-dimensional lifeforms were somewhat disbelieving. Completely disappearing from their senses, the karma completely disappearing, represented complete death.

"I can sense that he has been living deep in the Original Gold Mountain Range all these years. I heard that he even built a cave abode there," some high-dimensional lifeforms wondered. "He's hiding there; who can kill him?"

"Who killed Natho?" Many high-dimensional lifeforms were curious about this.

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Among the many high-dimensional lifeforms exploring within the Original Gold Mountain Range, some were strong, and some were weak. One particularly strong team was flying forward in the void.

The three figures in this team suddenly stopped and looked in one direction.

"Natho was killed in his own cave abode? The life imprint far away in the abyss was still erased." Among the three figures, the leader was tall, had a pair of gray curved horns, and was covered in scales. "Those capable of doing this do not exceed ten factions in the entire territory."

"Brother Mo Yu, with your strength, you should be able to completely kill Natho," said the black-haired figure next to him.

"I'm confident outside, but in his cave abode…" Mo Yu shook his head. "I can't do it either."

"In the Southern Arbor 3609 Territory, one-on-one, Brother Mo Yu is hard to match below the half-step third realm," the black-haired figure said. "Brother Mo Yu can't do it, so who killed Natho?"

The petite figure beside him said, "It should have been done by several powerful high-dimensional lifeforms working together."

"It should be a joint effort." Mo Yu nodded. "Relying on his cave abode, no one below the half-step third realm can kill him one-on-one."

…

At this moment, a large number of high-dimensional lifeforms in the entire Southern Arbor 3609 Territory were paying attention to Natho's death, wondering who killed Natho! However, the Dean, Tower Master, and Island Lord had no sense of it.

Because they had only moved to this territory for thousands of years, they didn't know many high-dimensional lifeforms, and they had never even seen Natho, so there was no karmic connection.

"My many avatars are buying low and selling high in various territories, helping other high-dimensional lifeforms with purchasing, and a large number of avatars are searching for ruins in the Heart Realm… After working hard for thousands of years, I've only earned less than 200,000 drops of abyss true blood," Xu Jingming was carefully examining his gains in Myriad Star Island. "This time, killing Natho and Du Ying has made me rich."

"These spoils of war accumulate to a value of about 1.2 million drops of abyss true blood," Xu Jingming was in a very good mood.

This was considered quite wealthy.

Because high-dimensional lifeforms would exchange any accumulation for cultivation resources.

Like Xu Jingming learning the spear technique of the silver paper, which cost 100,000 drops of abyss true blood, he already felt that the other party was very kind. If it was a 'third realm inheritance' learning opportunity, it generally started at 1 drop of abyss mother blood. However, it was rare to encounter a third realm inheritance learning opportunity.

Xu Jingming was quite familiar with the experts of the Heart Realm in the surrounding thousands of territories, but he had not yet heard of where he could learn a third realm inheritance.

Like Gu Mo, even if he cultivated experts of his own race, he would only impart a portion of the third realm inheritance. The most crucial part would not be easily imparted.

The few high-dimensional lifeforms of humanity had not yet learned a complete third realm inheritance.

Apart from the most crucial inheritance, like treasures, weapons, stable and safe cave abodes, and auxiliary resources, which one wasn't expensive?

High-dimensional lifeforms were generally very poor because they had used up all their savings.

"My future cultivation path only has the silver paper's style of spearmanship; it's far from enough," Xu Jingming was very clear about this. "A more detailed and complete inheritance, a third realm weapon… These are all needed."

"When truly calculated, 1.2 million drops of abyss true blood is still too little; it's not even enough to cultivate a demonic body like Natho's. I wonder if his demonic body corpse can be sold," Xu Jingming pondered ways to save money.

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As time passed, Xu Jingming and the other three had explored the Original Gold Mountain Range for more than a hundred years. In these hundred years, apart from killing Natho and Du Ying, there were no other disturbances.

"Stop!"

The Dean, Tower Master, Island Lord, and Xu Jingming were flying when Xu Jingming suddenly spoke, causing the other three to look at him in confusion.

Xu Jingming frowned slightly, because the avatar exploring the way ahead was carefully investigating.

"What's wrong?" the Dean asked.

Xu Jingming was a little excited and looked at the Dean and the others. "My avatar exploring the way ahead has discovered a small mineral deposit."

"Small mineral deposit?" The Dean, Tower Master, and Island Lord were both surprised and delighted!

A hundred years of exploration was too boring. They had long been looking forward to the day they discovered a mineral deposit.

"After waiting for so many years, we've finally discovered a small mineral deposit." Time-Space Island Lord revealed a bright smile.

The Tower Master also smiled. "The Original Gold Mountain Range has been explored by generations of high-dimensional lifeforms, so finding mineral deposits has become increasingly difficult. By the way, Jingming, don't mine directly. Wait for us to come over."

"Don't worry, I understand." Xu Jingming was very clear about some of the taboos of mining small mineral deposits. "Everyone, follow me."

Xu Jingming led the way, and the four quickly flew forward, passing through two forks, and finally arrived at an area where another Xu Jingming was guarding.

"Mineral deposit."

The Dean, Tower Master, and Island Lord were all a little excited as they looked at the mountain wall ahead.

Xu Jingming also smiled. At such close range, he could clearly sense the strong Original Gold aura! Clearly, there was a large amount of Original Gold deep in the mountain wall, which was why there was such a strong aura.

"Judging from the aura, it should only be a small mineral deposit," the Dean said, sensing carefully. "It should only be Original Gold Pearls. I estimate there are about 5,000 - 10,000 pearls."

"That's what I estimated as well," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Now they are all hidden in the rocks, and the aura is most restrained. Once the rocks are smashed, the aura will be exposed, and the Original Gold aura will be much stronger than it is now," Time-Space Island Lord said. "At that time, it will alarm some of the high-dimensional lifeforms nearby."

"With our strength, what's there to be afraid of?" the Tower Master said with a smile.

The three of them joining forces dared to confront a half-step third realm existence head-on, so they were naturally confident.